God is long-suffering and merciful to you: this you experience many times every day.
Be long-suffering and merciful to your brethren, also fulfilling the words of the Apostle, who thus speaks of love before everything: “Love suffereth long, and is kind.”
You desire that the Lord should rejoice you by His love, rejoice on your part the hearts of others by your tender love and kindness.
St. John of Kronstadt